Tag Archives: female boxing

Alejandra Jimenez Use of Banned Substance Confirmed

Mexico’s Alejandra Jimenez Dirty Sample Confirmed   By David A. Avila No doubt, super middleweight contender Alejandra Jimenez of Mexico has tested dirty in a second sample for a banned substance. After more than a month of waiting, the B sample for Jimenez’s PED test taken by VADA (Voluntary Anti-Doping Association), was opened on Wednesday […]

Smaller Fighters Raring to Go in Wild West

Smaller Weight Female Fighters Ready and More Female Fight News   By David A. Avila Over the weekend a quartet of Japanese female boxers headed by two world champions visited Southern California. WBA flyweight world titlist Naoko Fujioka a five-division world champion and Miyo Yoshida the WBO super flyweight world titlist both sparred numerous rounds […]

Japan’s World Champions Naoko Fujioka and Miyo Yoshida in U.S. Visit

Japanese Fighters Fujioka and Yoshida Arrive in Southern California to Test Waters    By Felipe Leon   Earlier this week as the sun was setting to the west of Los Angeles, a plane was landing from the East.  Traveling in it were the current WBA female flyweight champion Naoko Fujioka (18-2-1, 7KO), arguably the best […]

Poland’s Ewa Piatkowska Eager to Try All Super Lightweights

POLISH CHAMPION EWA PIATKOWSKA EAGER TO MAKE HER U.S.A. DEBUT   By David A. Avila Former super welterweight titlist Ewa Piatkowska seeks to fight in the USA and doesn’t care who she fights as long as it’s in her proper weight class, the 140-pound super lightweight division. During the past five years Piatkowska, who lives […]

Mary McGee Wins and the Return of U.S. Female Prizefighting

Mary McGee and American Eruption and Female Fight News   By David A. Avila Fans of European female boxing, pardon us. Increased excitement over the rise of the women’s fight game has American fans outright giddy over recent developments. A six-female boxing card saw IBF super lightweight titlist Mary McGee retain the title by knockout […]

Terri Harper Unseats Eva Wahlstrom for WBC Title

Harper Captures WBC Title From Wahlstrom in England    By Phil Woolever   At the end of five close, action-packed rounds at Sheffield Arena, the Terri Harper – Eva Wahlstrom bout was hard to score and looked like anybody’s fight.   The second half of the battle, for Wahlstrom’s WBC super featherweight belt, was a […]

Mary McGee Defends Title on Loaded Female Card in Indiana

Mary McGee Leads Female Dominated Card in Indiana   By David A. Avila An impressive roster of top female prizefighters including IBF super lightweight titlist Mary McGee descends on the state of Indiana. It’s been years since a female dominated fight card equaled this. McGee (26-3, 14 KOs) defends the IBF title in a 10 […]

WBC’s Eva Wahlstrom vs IBO’s Terri Harper

Wahlstrom Faces Big Challenge From Harper   By Phil Woolever   When Finland’s Eva Wahlstrom defends her WBC super featherweight championship against rising British star Terri “Belter” Harper it shapes up as a classic case of both experience versus youth and acquired wisdom versus raw power.   It will be little surprise if the ladies […]

Sulem Urbina Impresses at Fantasy Springs

Sulem Urbina Dominated A Game Noemi Bosques   By Felipe Leon   Up-and-coming prospect Sulem Urbina (12-0, 2KO) of Phoenix, Arizona, by way of Hermosillo, Mexico, put together her best performance so far in her pro career in completely dominating veteran Noemi “La Rebelde” Bosques (12-15-3, 2KO) over six rounds at a catchweight of 114 […]

Sulem Urbina’s American Journey Begins Thursday

Sulem Urbina Fights Noemi Bosques at Fantasy Springs in Indio   By Felipe Leon   When one door closes, another one opens.  Nothing could be truer for up-and-coming flyweight prospect Sulem Urbina (11-0, 2KO) of Phoenix, Arizona by way of Hermosillo, Mexico.  Last year after defeating veteran Judith Rodriguez in Tijuana, Mexico, live on DAZN, […]